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September 26 Happy New Year..today's sermon You missed Rosh Ha Shana, the Head (Rosh) of the Year (Shana): the New Year, the celebration of the beginning of the world, the world's birthday. when you say Shana Tova to everybody, like happy new year, ...it means have a good (tova..like in mazel TOV...good luck) year ...began Friday Sep 18th at sundown. Then God lets you have 10 Days of Awe (it's ends this coming Monday) to make up for any bad deals you did or people you insulted. And then he decides which book to write you in, the book of life or the book of death. It's like waiting for Santa. What a present! That's Yom Kippur coming next. Yom means Day..... Kippur means atonement. The Day of Atonement. Then you pray, I'll be good, I asked people to forgive me, please give me another year. (OK, ditto) And you try again. It's a fine tradition, just like Santa Claus is a fine tradition. Only one trick you didn't know about. You can get forgiveness only directly from the ones you sinned against. That's the fine print. If you kill somebody I don't know how you get out of it since the victim can't forgive you. Maybe God could forgive, but he might have left. Judaism is about this life, not some life we don't know about. But anyway, the Good Book says the righteous of all the earth will have a share in the world to come. Amen. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://doctorgrayson.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2FC6F6005DF92C68!405.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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